I'm here now. Use this to tell everyone you are here!

[Aggie]

Welcome aboard!  A friend of Griffin's is a friend of all around here!

Oh, and feel free to post any of your favorite smilies...  we don't mind expanding the list if we like 'em!  There's a thread specifically for it here:
http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?topic=343.0

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Welcome to the Monastery.

It is a comfy place, you don't have to worry about that.

And people are friendly, and sometimes insane (in the positive meaning of the word, of course).

So join the general insanity and be welcome.

(and have a drink or two along the way, as we all do sometimes)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

A very warm welcome indeed. I hope you find it as confy as promised.

[Opsa]

Pull up a chair, jazzcica!

Nice name. Is it about jazz?

[The Meromorph]

Welcome home!
Kick your shoes off and sit a spell...

If you're a friend of Griffin's, we already love you!

[Sibling Chatty]

Hi Jazzcica. I'm Sibling Chatty AKA Auntie Dee Dee.

Any friend of Griffin's is OK by me! Get a comfy chair and footstool and a pillow and snuggle on in.

[anthrobabe]

Hello!!!

[Vita Curator]

Welcome Jazzcica, any friend of Griffin's is already special in my book!!!

[jazzcica]

Wow! Thank you for your warm welcomes, I already feel at home. Like hot chocolate and hot water bottles, a great comfort.

Just to explain the name (as some of you, well, at least one, know), it's a multi-lingual name: jazz which means jazz, my favourite music; cica Hungarian word meaning (pussy)cat. My home is in Budapest (although I am English) but I am in the UK at the moment.

Cheers!

[Bluenose]

Welcome Jazzcica from the antipodes.  Anyone who likes hot chocolate and hot water bottles should fit right in here!

Sibling Bluenose

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Hello Toadies!!It took forever to login here (about six months) since Davel mentioned it to me.It is good to see so many familiar names.I've even been able to discern familiar poeple due to their style of writing or zany humour.
I'm just starting to stumble about here, this being my first visit after many failed attempts.
My appologies for being so tardy,i've just got myself back online this past friday and have only been to the previous site intermittantly since last June.
Thus said i haven't a clue regarding the politics of the pasta forum.I noticed a referance to onmia. What is omnia?

[goat starer]

Hello Brother good to see you here! I am avoiding all politics so you will have to wait for somebody else to come up with an answer to the Omnia question.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Welcome, Brother Cuzzen!  Make yourself at home!

Thus said i haven't a clue regarding the politics of the pasta forum.I noticed a referance to onmia. What is omnia?

Omnia is what some people here call "the Pasta Forum".

Hello Brother good to see you here! I am avoiding all politics so you will have to wait for somebody else to come up with an answer to the Omnia question.

Since you're avoiding all politics, I'll avert my eyes from the little Soviet flag at the bottom of your post, "Comrade Goatvara".   

[Aggie]

Omnia is a bit of a Discworld in-joke, with reference to a Holy Saint Bobby....   Also abbreviated as TOP/The Other Place, and occasionally Koom Valley (more Discworld). 

It really doesn't get too much reference these days, actually!

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Thank you Siblings,Was Discworld writen by the same fellow who wrote The Ringworld series?I haven't read Discworld,i like the sound of the title though.